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So What Were Those Secret Flying Wing Aircraft Spotted Over Texas? - mysterious 'flying Doritos' 2.jpg ...
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https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/so...ted-1555124270 So what exactly were those mysterious "flying Doritos" booking it high over the Texas Panhandle, and more recently, Wichita, Kansas? Nobody may be able, or willing, to give you a definitive answer, but Foxtrot Alpha is here to lay out all of the possibilities of what's almost certainly one of the military's big secrets. In the skies above the U.S. there have been multiple reports of what are referred to as flying wing aircraft traveling overhead. None of the images seem to match up to anything anyone has seen before — at least no one with ability to talk about it. In the first part of this analysis we'll focus on all the manned possibilities. What We Know This new photo, taken in Wichita, Kansas by photographer Jeff Templin a few weeks ago, shows a triangular planform twin engine aircraft with some detail. His report of the sighting states that the aircraft was executing s-turns high overhead, with no sound coming from the craft at all. If the mystery jet was trying to slow down, or at least increase its travel time over a finite distance, which the execution of s-turns usually signify, the engines may have been at idle, or at low power settings, thus the sound may have been greatly diminished. This is especially true on an aircraft that most likely has its engines mounted deep inside its fuselage and its exhaust set above and inward of the aircraft's trailing edge. There is also the distances involved, probably around five miles or more straight up, which can greatly dissipate sound. Theory #1: It was a hoax and/or an illusion and these aircraft do not exist This theory would state that the pictures, personal accounts and radio transmissions posted on Steve Douglass's website are a total or partial fabrication. For a layman just looking at these pictures, which are arguably not of the best optical quality, I could totally understand how they could say that they are the result of a creative Photoshop session. Additionally, Steve has chased secret projects for some time, he even shows us a picture of his personal command center or sorts in his house, dedicated mainly to intercepting military radio transmissions and researching military technology, especially of the classified type. Steve has actually been active in the more shadowy areas of military aviation for some time, he even wrote a book that is called The Interceptors Club and the Secret of the Black Manta, a novel that appears to be about an aircraft similar to the one spotted. The book's very title does have a slight reference to what the aircraft depicted in the pictures he posted could be (we will get to that in a moment), and even the art on the front of his book features an aircraft that is somewhat analogous in design to the one in the supposed pictures he and a friend Dean Muskett took at Amarillo International Airport on March 1oth. Theory #2: They are Airliners, B-2 Spirits or some other known aircraft This is a theory that I can tell you is bogus with total certainty. People say that these aircraft are just commercial airliners whose shape are distorted due to an optical illusion or atmospheric interference. Yeah, not so much. I have spent many years behind many types of camera bodies and lenses, shooting almost exclusively aircraft, and I have never taken a picture of an aircraft at altitude and thought "hey is that a secret flying wing aircraft," nor have any other aviation photographers I know. Sure, once in a while those "hey what is up there" shots can be puzzling as to what type of airliner it is, but not where it clearly shows a flying wing, yet alone three of them in trailing formation! I have also photographed the B-2 at altitude on multiple occasions, and none were even interesting enough to post or keep. Theory #3: Classified Manned Penetrating Reconnaissance Aircraft I think it is extremely safe to say that the DoD has had many more secret aerospace projects over the last 30+ years than the few that have been disclosed. In fact, there is rumored to be a good portion of a massive hangar at Area 51 full of these long retired but still shadowy programs. There have been so many in fact that the USAF and industry have been known to just bury these historical but obscure aircraft as there is simply no room to store them at the sprawling Area 51 and Tonopah Air Force Base installations. Additionally, many sightings over the years in and around the sprawling Nellis Range Complex, the famous North Sea flying triangle spotting and incidents such as the crash RAF Boscombe Down and other similar events, have added to the pile of evidence that America invests in multiple clandestine flying programs at any given time. much more at https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/so...ted-1555124270 * |
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